There is a very famous joke about Bose’s work in Giridh. Professor Mahalanobis wanted Bose to visit the paddy fields and advise him on sampling problems for the estimation of yield of paddy. Bose did not very much like the idea, and he used to spend most of the time at home working on combinatorial problems using Galois fields. The workers of the ISI used to make a joke about this. Whenever Pro...

Microplot experiments on flooded soil infested with Hirschmanniella oryzae were conducted to investigate the influence of the legum Sesbania rostrata as a rotation crop with rice, Oryza sativa L. cv. Moroberekan. To avoid a green manure effect from S. rostrata, all aerial parts were removed at harvest. The dry weight of paddy, culms and leaves, and number of culms of rice following Sesbania wer...

can be completely dispensed with. The standard pattern of jail filth receptacle answers admirably. This is made easy by the fact that I have dispensed with the system of " earth proofing " each deposit in the latrines, and substituted paddy husk instead. To us here, this item is a bye-product in our garden department; we produce 80 maunds of rice locally, and it is found by experiment that a po...

the main purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing the adoption of biological control by paddy farmers. the population consisted of paddy farmers in saricounty. sampling of 260 farmers was selected by using proportional random sampling method. data were collected by means of a questionnaire. validity of questionnaire was confirmed by agricultural jihad experts of saricounty and...

The study reports the occurrence of fumonisin producing Fusarium verticillioides in 90 samples of stored paddy (Oryza sativa L.) collected from different geographical regions of Karnataka, India. Fumonisin producing F. verticillioides was identified based on micromorphological characteristics and PCR using two sets of primers. One set of primers was F. verticillioides species specific, which se...

Propionate-forming bacteria seem to be abundant in anoxic rice paddy soil, but biogeochemical investigations show that propionate is not a correspondingly important intermediate in carbon flux in this system. Mixed cultures of Opitutus terrae strain PB90-1, a representative propionate-producing bacterium from rice paddy soil, and the hydrogenotrophic Methanospirillum hungatei strain SK maintain...

Microplot experiments on flooded soil infested with Hirschmanniella oryzae were conducted to investigate the influence of the legum Sesbania rostrata as a rotat ion crop with rice, Oryza sativa L. cv. Moroberekan. To avoid a green manure effect f rom S. r'ostrata, all aerial parts were removed at harvest. The dry weight of paddy, culms and leaves, and n u m b e r of culms of rice following Sesb...

Rice is the major source of food for half of the world’s population. Paddy production entails use of costly resources a quarter to one third of world’s annual fresh water supply, fossil fuels and synthetic fertilizers leading to high ecological foot prints. Paddy fields also emit greenhouse gases to global warming, soil and water pollution. The system of Rice Intensification (SRI) is an answer ...

In this study, musculoskeletal disorders, energy consumption and input costs of paddy labors have been studied in cultivation, crop protection, and harvesting rice in Northern Iran, Guilan province. The sample size of the study consisted of 74 paddy workers of the study region. The data were collected through Nordic questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that the la...

to evaluate of rice genotypes in various modified systems, an experiment was carried out as split plot in randomized complete blocks design with four replications at neka region, mazandaran province, iran in 2011-2012. cropping systems were chosen as main plots including conventional, improved and system of rice intensification (sri) and genotypes as sub plots including: sang tarom, hashemi tar...